Money-envelope



(Nb Model.)

' P. SGANLAN.

MONEY ENVELOPE.

Patented Dec. 8; 1 885.-

No. 332,008. E

INVEOR ATTORNEYS.

- WITNESSES PATRICK SOANLAN, OF IDA GROVE, IOlVA.

MONEY-ENVELOPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,008, dated December 8,1885.

Application filed July 15, 1885. Serial No. 171,712. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK SOANLAN, of Ida Grove, in the county of Ida and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Money-Envelope, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention has for its object the production of an envelope for holding and transmit ting money and other valuables, which, after it has been scaled, will be absolutely secure against abstraction of its contents without breaking its seals or cutting or tearing it open; and the invention consists in such an envelope of novel construction, substantially as hereinafter shown and described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents the blank as cut and creased in the lines of its folds to make the envelope, and Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 represent facial views of the same at different stages in the making of the envelope. Fig. 7 is aview, as seen from its back, of the completed envelope when closed and sealed, the seals also being shown in part in Figs. 5 and 6; and Fig. 8 is a transverse section on the line as x in Fig. 7.

In making the envelope I first take a sheet, A, Fig. 1, of suitable paper or other suitable material, of any desired dimensions, eighteen inches long by thirteen inches Wide, being the size I generally prefer. cut and crease for subsequent folding and closing, as shown in Fig. 1-that is, crease it transversely at equal distances apart, or there about, as at a b 0 (Z, the last crease, (Z, being at the same distance from the end of the sheet it is next adjacent to as the distance apart of the creases 0 and (Z, or thereabout, while the crease a may be much closer to its end of the sheet, which end is cut, as ate 6, to form a flap, f. Longitudinal creases g g are also made near the opposite margins of the sheet throughout the length thereof. Straight cuts h h are then made from the opposite side margins of the sheet in line of the crease c, to or as far as the longitudinal This sheet I then creases g, and diagonal cuts Z i made from the side margins of the sheet between the creases a and b to where the creases b and g g intersect each other. This creasing and cutting of the sheet forms four main body parts, It, Z, m, and n, the end flap part, f, and opposite side flaps, 0 1' s, the ones 1' of which have angular ends a, as produced by the diagonal cuts Z. The sheet thus cut and creased is then first folded over in line of the crease d, and the meeting end portions of the body parts 70 Z secured together by adhesive material w w, Fig. 1. The double side flaps, 0 0, are then folded over in line of the creases g g on and secured by adhesive material to the outer surface of the folded-over body part it, as shown in Fig. 2. This causes the parts 70 Z and 0 0 to constitute a pocket for reception of the money to be inclosed in the envelope. The money or other valuable having been so inserted in said pocket, the envelope is then ready to be further folded and sealed to secure the contents. This is done by first folding over said pocket in line of the crease 0, onto the body part at, which causes the mouth of the pocket to be inverted and to be closed by the crease 0. Such stage in the closing of the envelope is shown in Fig. 8. The flaps r r are then folded over in line of the creases g 9' onto the body part Z, as shown in Fig. 4. The parts It, Z, and m, with their folded-over flaps o r, are then folded over onto the part it in line of the crease b, as shown in Fig. 5, after which the flaps s s are folded over onto the part at, as shown in Fig. 6, and subsequently the flapf and outer end portions of the flaps s s folded down or over in line of the crease a, as shown in Fig. 7, and seals B B applied to and over the junction of the flaps f s s and part m, the seals thus uniting three separate surfaces at either end of the envelope, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7.

To open the envelope for the purpose of re moving its contents, the consignee or receiver should out both ends and upper edge of it by running a knife beneath the flaps s s and f along the creases g a 9, whereby all injury to the contents will be avoided.

This safety-envelope will be found of great service to express companies and others.

Having thus described my invention, What I a o o,folded and cemented to constitute apocket, 10 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters and the wholeadapted to be subsequently Patent, is folded and sealed, essentially as herein shown The withindescribed envelope formed of or and described, and for the purposes set forth.

5 from a sheet, A, having transverse creases a w b 0 d, longitudinal or side creases, g g, and side PA1 RICK SOANLAN' cuts, h hand t z, leaving or forming body parts Witnesses: k l m n, and end and side fiaps,f 0 r s, and E. O. FREEMAN, having two of its body parts, k l, and side flaps, CHAS. R. OONDIT. 

